peddling
(a.)行商的,叫賣的,瑣屑的,無關緊要的行商
Ped·dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Peddled p. pr. & vb. n. Peddling ] To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.
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Ped·dling, a.
1. Hawking; acting as a peddler.
2. Petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling; -- now less common than piddling. “The miserable remains of a peddling commerce.”
Syn: -- petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling.
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peddling
n : the act of selling goods for a living [syn: vending, hawking,
vendition]